RedHat Enterprise 6.8 enters beta phase and seems it will be the last RedHat 6.x release to get new features added according to ServerWatch. Also RHEL 6.8 will get backported features from RHEL 7.2.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 officially enters its beta stage today, providing users of Red Hat's Linux platform with new features, some of which had already debuted in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 in November 2015.

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RHEL 6.8, however, will likely be the last RHEL 6.x release that gets new features. After this release, Red Hat expects to move RHEL 6.x into Production Phase 2, which is focused almost exclusively on bug fixes and security errata, favoring stability over innovation, according to Almy.

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The majority of the new features landing in RHEL 6.8 are being backported from the RHEL 7 product branch. Among them is the Libreswan virtual private network (VPN) technology that will become the new default VPN technology in RHEL 6, replacing Openswan.